James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
> > For example it makes me unhappy that the manual pages are in a
> > DocBook-like format but /usr/bin/man exposes zero features of Docbook to
> > the end-users (and the intermediate generation of troff files causes
> > trouble with tables, non-ASCII charatcers, transliteration, embedded
> > code examples etc.).
>
> Sure; there's plenty to be desired. I wouldn't suggest boiling away
> the ocean to get to it, though. I had though we were discussing the
> possible ways to get at the desired MANPATH=PATH behavior, not what
> the future may hold for man in general.
The main problem is the quality of the content in Docbook format
and the quality of the troff conversion.
Given the fact that it is impossible for me to edit the Docbook variants of
the man pages, I would vote for going back to the troff format which
causes less troubles.
BTW: For the MANPATH I would recommend to have a look ar HP-UX and the
way it deals with shell environemt variables.
J?rg
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